Bug#1148042: meta-gnome: disable webkit2gtk dependencies on big-endian

Jeremy Bícha jbicha at debian.org
Wed Sep 16 15:29:24 BST 2026


On Wed, Sep 16, 2026 at 2:29 PM Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
> meta-gnome currently pulls in some WebKitGTK-dependent packages, notably
> evolution, yelp and manuals. These dependencies will need to become
> something like
>
>     yelp [!s390x !hppa !m68k !powerpc !ppc64 !sparc64],
>
> to allow meta-gnome to continue to be installable on s390x, and ideally
> also the big-endian -ports architectures.

Yes, we should not need the alternative for this case because RHEL 10
provides a working GNOME desktop without webkitgtk.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha



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